Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plant close by Indianapolis' famed motor speedway, its engineers and craftsmen, working on small orders for the U. S. Army, have kept the spark of in-line design firing, are now ready to go places. Already powered by Allison V-12's is the Army's twin-motored fighter, the Airacuda. More recently, the 1,000-horsepower Allison was built into a modification of the Army's snub-nosed Curtiss P-36. The ship has a speed of 280 miles an hour with a 1,100-horsepower radial. Powered with an Allison engine with 100 less...
McGill's ascent into a first-place tie with Toronto in the International Division and Princeton's 12-1 victory over Yale were twin highlights of the International Intercollegiate Ice Hockey League competition last week. McGill turned back one of the chief rivals for the crown it is defending, Queens University, 7 to 3, while Princeton scored its first triumph in Quadrangular League play and its second in greater-league competition by turning in the highest score made in the circuit this season...
Three years ago, onetime New York State Senator John Ambrose Hastings, once one of Jimmy Walker's henchmen and now installed in Washington with the backing of Frank R. Fageol, president of Twin Coach Co. (a bus manufacturer), suggested to Federal Coordinator of Transportation Joseph Eastman that railroad fares be "postalized." Fortnight ago Mr. Hastings popped up again with his scheme, took a full-page advertisement in the New York Times to propound it. Under "postalization," the U. S. would be divided into nine zones, and for each of five types of passenger service the same rate would...
...accessible only by air. Most of these use giant Curtiss Condors rebuilt as cargo ships. Now busy refitting six Condors to carry mahogany logs out of Yucatan's wilds, Babb hit on the idea of a unique Babb Special. It will have a wing span of 100 feet, twin motors and a cruising speed of 135 m.p.h. Its cargo space will be 35 feet long, 8½ feet wide, 9 feet deep. Through a hatch in the nose 4,000-lb. tractors or standard army dump trucks may be driven right aboard. Depending on the fuel requirements, the Babb...
...Twin Mt.--Four inches of new snow on a three inch base. Good open slope skiing...